GoDaddy
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GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated under the Delaware General Corporation Law. GoDaddy is the world's fifth largest web host by market share, with over 62 million registered domains. The company primarily serves small and micro companies, which make up most of its 20 million customers.
Key facts
- Website.name
- GoDaddy Inc.
- Website.logo
- GoDaddy logo.svg
- Website.company_type
- Public
- Website.foundation
- (as Jomax Technologies)
- Website.location
- Tempe, Arizona, U.S.
- Website.founder
- Bob Parsons
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.revenue
- (2024)
- Website.operating_income
- (2024)
- Website.net_income
- (2024)
- Website.assets
- (2024)
- Website.equity
- (2024)
- Website.num_employees
- 5,518 (2024)
- Website.CEO
- Aman Bhutani
- Website.chairman
- Brian Sharples
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1997
- Location
- Scottsdale, United States
- Status
- Active
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Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- History
- Acquisitions and mergers
- Infrastructure
- GoDaddy Registry
- Marketing
- Sports sponsorships
- Super Bowl advertisements
- IndyCar
- NASCAR
- GoDaddy Bowl
- Philanthropy
- IPO and private equity
- Controversies
- Suspension of Seclists.org and purchase of No Daddy
- China domains
- Super Bowl XLIX Puppy Ad
- Namecheap rivalry
- Backing of SOPA and resultant boycott
- Phishing Awareness Test During COVID-19
- Deplatforming clients in protest
- Texas Heartbeat Act
- Data breaches
- See also
- References
- External links
GoDaddy Inc. is an American publicly traded Internet domain registry, domain registrar and web hosting company headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, and incorporated under the Delaware General Corporation Law. GoDaddy is the world's fifth largest web host by market share, with over 62 million registered domains. The company primarily serves small and micro companies, which make up most of its 20 million customers.
==History== alt=Former GoDaddy logo, used until 2019|thumb|GoDaddy logo before 2019 GoDaddy was founded in 1997 in Phoenix, Arizona, by entrepreneur Bob Parsons. Prior to founding GoDaddy, Parsons had sold his financial software services company Parsons Technology to Intuit for $65 million in 1994. He came out of his retirement in 1997 to launch Jomax Technologies, taking its name from a road in Phoenix Arizona.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GoDaddy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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